{"id":7499,"date":"2018-05-24T20:02:47","date_gmt":"2018-05-24T20:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2018\/05\/24\/is-this-the-way-to-transform-struggling-rural-schools\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T15:02:31","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T19:02:31","slug":"is-this-the-way-to-transform-struggling-rural-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/is-this-the-way-to-transform-struggling-rural-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"Is this the way to transform struggling rural schools?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As U.S. Secretary of Education in the 1990s and early 2000s, and previously as Governor of South Carolina for eight years, Richard Riley had a front-row seat for witnessing the impact of under-funded and under-resourced rural schools. In the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/hechingerreport.org\/opinion-is-this-the-way-to-transform-struggling-rural-schools\/\">Hechinger Report<\/a><\/strong>, Riley pens an article about the New Tech (project-based learning) model and how its presence in two high-poverty, South Carolina schools is proving efficacious. Said Riley, who serves on the New Tech Network&#8217;s board of advisers, &#8220;Hard-fought success is happening in these rural South Carolina schools that struggled for decades with low achievement. I applaud the commitment of these communities to start \u2014 and sustain \u2014 meaningful changes that benefit all students.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>Richard Riley serves as Advisory Board\u00a0chair of the Richard W. Riley Institute of Government,\u00a0Politics and Public Leadership at Furman University. Riley earned his bachelor\u2019s degree, cum laude,\u00a0in political science from Furman in 1954 and received\u00a0a J.D. from the University of South Carolina School\u00a0of Law in 1959. In 2008, Riley was named\u00a0one of the Top 10 Cabinet Members of the 20th\u00a0Century by\u00a0Time magazine.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As U.S. Secretary of Education in the 1990s and early 2000s, and previously as Governor of South Carolina for eight years, Richard Riley had a front-row seat for witnessing the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":7500,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,17,6,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-centers-and-institutes","category-in-the-news","category-riley-institute"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}